Speech and Language Processing – Jurafsky & Martin
The core NLP book (POS tagging, parsing, MT, semantics). Free draft online.
Foundations of Statistical Natural ...
Speech and Language Processing – Jurafsky & Martin
The core NLP book (POS tagging, parsing, MT, semantics). Free draft online.
Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing – Manning & Schütze
Excellent for probabilistic models (HMMs, parsing, WSD).
Corpus Linguistics – Biber et al.
Strong grounding in corpus design and analysis.
WordNet – Christiane Fellbaum (ed.)
Definitive reference on lexical databases.